MF DOOM made two of my favourite Rap albums of all time with Operation Doomsday and Black Bastards. But I view 60% of his recorded output in the same way that I view Lionel Messi's post-Barcelona career: best to pretend that it didn't happen as to not tarnish the legacy. Obviously the 2 Czarface albums DOOM recorded in his final years are the musical equivalent of Messi scoring free kicks and tap ins against farmers in the MLS.
I was unfortunate enough to hear some of the 2 Hard 4 The F**kin' Radio homage by That Canadian Nonce™. How is it even possible to make interpolating Mac Dre lyrics over a P-Lo beat sound like a sanitary towel commercial? That guy has the worst voice in the history of recorded music, and it boggles my mind that anyone finds his whiney music tolerable let alone pleasurable.
I'm not saying I wish that Russia would launch a drone strike on Toronto. I'm just saying that any city which inflicted That Canadian Nonce™ and Mindbender Futurama on the world deserves some sort of punishment.
Run-D.M.C's Raising Hell was the first Rap album I bought, and JayQuan is my favourite old skool Rap history-bod, so of course his recent book about the album is a Good Combination™. JayQuan is a convivial author who experienced the era and the album's impact from front, back & side to side, and he's big on details without being an annoying nutjob windbag like Dart Adams. Anecdotes and actual factz are provided by everyone involved in the making of the album, and it doesn't hurt that the book is fulla pictures of Run-D.M.C lookin' cooler than Polish feet.
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"Run-D.M.C's Raising Hell was the first Rap album I bought." Me too! Copped it on cassette and it blew my tiny mind (I wasn't even into double digits of solar orbits yet).
Drake has always been shit. How many more times do you need to clamp your lips to that same sewerage pipe before you realise its output is never going to taste like champagne?
"60%" seems quite the hyperbole for the portion of DOOM's catalogue that's skippable/cringe-worthy.
The only DOOM CD I find completely unlistenable is that "Venomous Villain" collection of floor sweepings.
I was trying to avoid the Dreck song, but I follow P-Lo on Instagram and he posted a snippet of it on his story.
Raising Hell was the 2nd album I bought full stop. The first was the Rocky IV soundtrack.
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